National Republican., 1887-11-09
CURRENT COMMENT.
The sointiilatIons which Brighton Our
Exchanged.

New York Tribune: The people want
able, upright, sound, and learned Judges.
They don't care for their politics. They
expect considerations of party to be put
away from the judicial officer as he puts
away all other personal interests when he
takes his seat on the bench.
San Francisco Chronicle The anarchists
| OF America belong to the dangerous classes
undoubtedly, but when they endeavor to
make us believe that they are the
| 5hgure-heads OF great widespread system
that threatens to sap our very vitals aud
| undermine our very constitution, they sim
| ply try to scare us with bugaboo.
st. Paul Pioneer Press: The Pittsburg
| priest, who succeeded In getting himself
elected as principal OF high school, has
thrown up his job in disgust with giving
any reason for his action. His one month's
experience as head Of "Godless school,"
that he was out OF his element. This eN-
pertinent will doubtless deter other am
bilious brethren.
st. Louis Globe Democrat The chief OF
ordance, Gen. Benet, is quite right In his
| suggestion that the spectacle Of all Europe
| In arms does not indicate an early adoption
| Of the policy Of peaceful arbitration, and
! he is equally correct in his opinion that It
is not good idea to leave our shores un.
| u
| significant enemy on the theory that war
is a played. out process In the philosophy
| OF civilization. II is still the part OF wisdom
| for us to back up our faith In arbitration
with good supply Of artillery Of the most
forceful and accurate patterns.
Chicago Inter Ocean: The mother OF q
Boston little girl unwilling that the child
should play on the grass in the public
garden, warned her there was policeman
sl,... al I,N1f
her to play on Sunday. Then the little girl
said: sob, dear; II 1t wasn't for the police.
mans and God, what nice times we could
havem The moral is obvious. When an
innocent child, whose Sunday footballs,
| wherever they are, sound as music to
| angel ears, gets the conception that God is
policeman, something is either radically
| wrong In the faith Of our fathers or the
common sense Of the mothers Of to-day.
Pittsburg Dispatch II these new ma .
chimes Of war can do all that seems to have
been shown by experiments, one thing Is
made certain and another is made probable
The first is that money spent in copying the
unwiedly and costly ironclads Of the old
form is money thrown away. When Eur >
pean nations are abandoning the construc.
tion Of these immense machines II is hardly
good policy for nation that is creating q
navy TO spend milllor In initiating vessels
useless. Let Zalinski and Smolianoff de-
monstrate the power OF their artilery-if
they have not already done so-and the ex
penditure which would give us one useless
ironclad will furnish us squadron OF
swift vessels bearing the dynamite guns
that can wipe the old navies from the
ocean.
81. Louis Globe Democrat: The Democrats
are displaying good deal Of needless alarm
over the prospective attitude OF the Repub.
| licans toward revenue legislation in the
| flftieth Congress. There is no good reason
| to assume hat they will spend any time in
"harassing and worrying the Democrats" :"
| They did not do this in the forty ninth Con-
| gress, when the necessity for devlsiug some
| wise plan to reduce the governments in
come was much less urgent than 1t is now.
| The Republicans will not be responsible for
legislation In the next Congress, nor were
they in either OF the last two Congresses.
Now they are the minority party, as they
were then. Nevertheless, they will un-
doubtedly attempt to pass some sensible
measure Of revenue legislation, and will
not withhold their support from any
scheme, by whomsoever presented, which
promises to intelligently solve the surplus
| problem.